Rooibos tea is tasty, healthy, and can bring the world a little closer. Is interdependence really all that bad? My take: globalcommons.substack.com/p/rooibos-te...
Evan Lieberman
@evlieb.bsky.social
Political science professor, Director of MIT Center for International Studies and Global Diversity Lab. I study democratic governance, climate policy, ethnic politics, mostly in Africa.
We can put up more guardrails against AI-related cheating. But maybe we should talk more with students about integrity and trust, and create a learning atmosphere in which faculty don't need to police. That's what I argue in my Global Commons substack: globalcommons.substack.com/p/trust-poli...
Trust, Policing and AI in the Classroom
The steady stream of news about widespread AI-related cheating on college campuses really gets me down.
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Please check out my latest substack on Americans and foreign suffering. Recently published research demonstrates that American concern for suffering drops precipitously when victims are not American! globalcommons.substack.com/p/do-america...
Do Americans Care About Foreign Suffering?
Same Flood, Same Family, Half the Help
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Over two billion people lack access to safe water. Are democracies better at closing this massive gap? A substack on recently published research at World Development with Naomi Tilles on the limits of democracy for achieving universal safe water access globalcommons.substack.com/p/democracy-...
Democracy delivers the tap. But not always the safe water.
Roughly 2 billion people still lack reliable access to clean drinking water.
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Please check out my latest substack post on Japanese design, culture, and disaster preparedness! open.substack.com/pub/globalco...
Facing danger
Can great design save us?
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The MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) is searching for two Postdoctoral Associates for the 2026–27 academic year. Please apply! To learn more, visit: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl... @MIT_CIS @MITPoliSci
Postdoctoral Associate
MIT - Postdoctoral Associate - Cambridge MA 02139
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Call for applications! The MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) is seeking two Postdoctoral Associates for the 2026–27 academic year. We are looking for scholars demonstrating exceptional scholarly achievement and promise for policy- relevant research. Please visit: tinyurl.com/33d2veuf
With today's start of women's and men's singles at the #usopen25, I want to share my brief essay that appeared in the @nytimes.com yesterday. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/o... Thanks to so many who reached out with nice comments! (And the less nice ones were pretty civil!)
Opinion | What the U.S. Open Tells Us About America
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Very happy to share that our study of dignity appeals is now out at PSRM
Political Science Research and Methods@psrm.bsky.social · last yr.🧠Can dignity appeals boost engagement with marginalized groups? ➡️P. Bollen, W. Kymlicka, @evlieb.bsky.social & B.Read show that Facebook ads using dignity language spark positive reactions, but only when targets are not seen as “blameworthy” www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
CIS is delighted to announce the launch of a new pilot initiative with Angola! The initiative marks a significant collaboration between MIT-Africa, Sonangol, and the Instituto Superior Politécnico de Tecnologias e Ciências (ISPTEC). Read here: cis.mit.edu/news/mit-afr... @evlieb.bsky.social
JOB ALERT: Come work as lab manager / research associate at the Global Diversity Lab at MIT -- a great opportunity for recent undergraduates considering a PhD in political science #development #climate #diversity Recent LM's went to Stanford, Yale, Berkeley careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
Research Support Associate 2
MIT - Research Support Associate 2 - Cambridge MA 02139
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Looking forward to presenting some research (joint with @devincaughey.bsky.social and Preston Johnston) on ethnicity and climate attitudes in Africa at the USC Comparative Politics workshop tomorrow.
Thank you to our speakers @juliettekayyem.bsky.social, @kschake.bsky.social, and @evlieb.bsky.social for their insightful analysis of President Trump's first 100 days in office and the implications for domestic and foreign policy. In case you missed it, watch the event here: youtu.be/osl65UXxNJI?...
Starr Forum: The US and the World Under Trump: The First 100 Days
YouTube video by MIT Center for International Studies (MIT CIS)
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I am looking forward to this event on Wednesday @mit-cis.bsky.social when I'll be moderating a discussion with two leading analysts Kori Schake (AEI) and Juliette Kayyem (HKS), focused on US Foreign Policy under President Trump
MIT Center for International Studies@mit-cis.bsky.social · last yr.#EVENTALERT: Starr Forum: The US and the World Under Trump: The First 100 Days, April 16, 5:30 PM, MIT 45-230 Experts Juliette Kayyem & Kori Schake will analyze Trump’s first 100 days. Evan Lieberman, director of CIS, will moderate. Learn more: bit.ly/StarrForumTrump
The deadline for submission of papers to the Boston/New England Area Working Group in African Political Economy (BWGAPE) is March 28 (Friday). Please consider applying! #polisky #EconSky @nlnathan.bsky.social @evlieb.bsky.social @robertblair.bsky.social
Donghyun Danny Choi@dhdannychoi.bsky.social · 2y agoPlease submit your papers for the Boston/New England Area Working Group in African Political Economy (BWGAPE), scheduled for May 16, 2025, at Brown University with the generous support of Brown's PPE Center. Deadline: March 28 Link: forms.gle/vTGSfp4kEpuJ... #polisky #EconSky
Of all the minority groups in the world that need the care and support of the United States, the white farmers of #SouthAfrica ... do not rank very high. If the U.S. cares about South Africans, let's not take away aid for HIV meds or energy transition www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...
Trump Offers South African Farmers Expedited Citizenship
The president falsely claimed on social media that the South African government was confiscating farmland, echoing previous statements that the country was mistreating white people.
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My piece on the remarkable parallels between turn-of-the-20th century South Africa and the United States today, with lessons for what could come next. www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/...
Lessons from Donald Trump’s South African doppelgänger, Paul Kruger
Paul Kruger, the second president of the South African Republic, might as well have been a prototype for Donald Trump. The echoes between their leadership styles — xenophobia, nationalism, disdain for...
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Despite efforts to shutter #USAID, which would be a significant blow to many African countries, it's clear that Pres Trump does care deeply about one minority group on the continent: White South Africans -- the wealthiest 4+ million people on a continent of 1.5 billion. apnews.com/article/trum...
How Trump's pledge to punish South Africa reflects Musk's criticism of his homeland
U.S. President Donald Trump says he will cut all funding to South Africa over what he called a massive human rights violation.
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Encouraging evidence of global leadership from #SouthAfrica President Cyril Ramaphosa www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Ramaphosa champions forward-thinking G20 agenda
While Donald Trump is at the head of the pack of global strongman leaders, President Cyril Ramaphosa has placed South Africa firmly in the camp of the diminishing progressive world.
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Sarah Lockwood & @evlieb.bsky.social consider whether financial incentives increase participation in surveys. They find that, if anything, material incentives depress response rates, but there is some heterogeneity in estimated effects by political party. Read more here: doi.org/10.1177/2053...
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#Trump’s withdrawal from @who.int was widely anticipated & criticised for damage it will cause. It serves as a wake-up call for the importance of multilateralism in the face of American unilateralism. In our @bmj.com piece, we outline actions to address the crisis www.bmj.com/content/388/...
New study examines American attitudes on global climate policies. Authors are Professors Evan Lieberman and Volha Charnysh, MIT PhD student Jared Kalow and UPenn postdoctoral student Erin Walks. cis.mit.edu/news-media/n... @evlieb.bsky.social @vcharnysh.bsky.social
Following #COP29, critical to understand sources of support, resistance for climate aid to the Global South. Published today in Climatic Change, we highlight that messages about America's historic carbon emissions boost support for climate-related foreign aid... link.springer.com/article/10.1...
How information about historic carbon emissions affects support for climate aid: evidence from a survey experiment - Climatic Change
In recent years, international climate negotiations have reached increasing consensus that the wealthiest countries should make significant financial contributions to offset the damages caused by the ...
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